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  What it means

  Literally “a nail in the coffin.” Describes the final blow that finishes something off — the last damaging event that ends a career, relationship, project, or argument. Exact equivalent of the English expression.

  Vocabulary

  • gwóźdź — nail
  • trumna — coffin

  Grammar note

  'Do trumny' uses the genitive after 'do' (to/into). The phrase is typically used as 'to był gwóźdź do trumny' (that was the nail in the coffin).

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